After McLaren announced that it has suspended a senior member of its technical team the Ferrari team announced that it has recently presented a case against Nigel Stepney and an engineer from the McLaren-Mercedes team with the Modena Tribunal, concerning the theft of technical information.
The Italian team furthermore confirmed that legal action has been instigated in England and a search warrant has been issued concerning the McLaren engineer. This produced a positive outcome when it is believed that police found incriminating evidence at the McLaren employee's house on Tuesday. Ferrari also confirmed on Tuesday that it had dismissed Nigel Stepney after he had been suspected of sabotage for some time, allegedly tampering with the fuel tanks on the Ferrari cars prior to the Monaco Grand Prix. However, it would seem that the revelation that a McLaren employee received technical information from a Ferrari insider has been the breakthrough in this case and the tipping factor in Stepney's dismissal.
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